September 2020

Body El Reno High School’s football team will close out the non-district portion of its schedule Friday night as the Indians travel down Interstate 40 to play the Weatherford Eagles. It’s the second game of a back-to-back road swing for El Reno, which played at Piedmont last week.

Body At 2:30 a.m., when most people are home fast asleep, members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Farm and Ranch crew were busy preparing for the arrival of the tribes new additions to a growing buffalo herd.

Body Sheriff Chris West said all but two of 24 inmates at the Canadian County Jail who tested positive for the coronavirus are now considered “fully recovered.

Body A 12-year-old El Reno boy was killed when the vehicle he was traveling in collided with a pickup. The accident happened on U.S. 81, three miles south of Minco, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. The accident happened just before 11 a.m. Thursday at County Road 1220 on U.S. 81.

Body Lake El Reno is open for business. City officials announced the reopening of the lake Friday morning for all water activity after closing it Wednesday. The lake level had climbed to unsafe levels after heavy  rains on Monday and Tuesday.

Body A new 18,500-square-foot corporate office building for Lucky Star Casino approaches the midway point of construction. The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes broke ground for the corporate office building in 2019. It is located in Concho, near the Lucky Star Casino.

Body OKLAHOMA CITY – Canadian County has been awarded a grant from the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) for more than $183,000.

Body El Reno City Council will consider Tuesday evening issuing a special permit to the Southern Drag Boat Association for drag boat races to be held Sept. 25-27 at Lake El Reno. If approved, it will be the second such event on the lake this summer after July’s Smoke on the Water.

Body El Reno High School’s softball team honored its three senior members last week in a ceremony before the start of the home game with Lawton MacArthur. As tradition, El Reno also honored the three Highlander seniors on the visitors squad with flowers.

Body SSM Health St. Anthony welcomes Sydney Haggins, MD, as a family medicine physician for men, women and children in El Reno and the surrounding areas.